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As a teen your parents are still making the decisions, no questions asked, but is there a time where it needs to be up to teens to do what they fell is best for themselves without parental consent? Well according to some states it is not when it comes to abortion. Depending on what state you live in there are parental consent laws that make it a requirement to tell you parents, or have them notified before you get an abortion. As a person that does not believe in abortion, I have found myself torn between both sides. By law I am now an adult at 18, where I can make the once decisions made by my parents my own, but I still have the mind of a teenager where I can understand how they feel in certain areas. If in another world I did believe in abortion i wouldn't want my parents to know due to the fact that I know they would be disappointed in me. On the other hand, parents want their children to always be safe and taken care of knowing that them being in control is in the best interest of their children.
 * Parental Involvment: Abortion**By: A'Yanna Hill

The purpose of parental consent is to let parents know that their child is taking a medical action that to them is necessary to move on with their lives. Also it may be ways to get parents into sitting down with their daughter to offer support that they feel they didn't have and or to make sure if abortion is really what they want to do. On the College of Coastal Georgia website under academic resources to library using GALILEO, typing in "teen abortions and parental consent" there are articles that talk about the problem with laws pertaining to telling you parents before you get an abortion. Supreme Court case Ayotte vs. Planned Parenthood of New Hampshire reguards these issues. I do believe that the teen carrying the baby is to have their own say in what they plan to do. Either way if the teen was to keep the baby they would be making most of, if not all, the decisions anyway. In respects to that, why is it that parents should have a say in their daughter making the decision in having an abortion? Some parents may want to stop their child form taking the action of abortion; maybe because they do not believe, which may lead to adoption, or they rather raise the child themselves until their child becomes an adult and is more capable of raising the baby. I honestly do not know what can be done to solve this problem. While teens are getting abortions their parents also do have the right to know what kind of medical treatment they are getting, just in case something goes wrong.

Parental consent should be authorized to parents of teens that want to get an abortion according to some states. The first viewpoint is that parents should have the right to know that their child is about to have an abortion. The other viewpoint is that young women in such situations do not have to tell their parents. Assume that a young girl in Arkansa (one of the states where you would need parental consent) became pregnant and knows her parents are going to react in a disapproving manner and may force her to keep the baby. She decides to go to the Planned Parenthood clinic but finds out that she can not get an abortion until she have gotten the consent of at least one parent. Without the support from the father of the baby and her friends she feels that she can't get herself out of the situation and decides to take care of it herself. The young girl goes and fall's victim to illegal abortion and soon after becomes critically ill. Later her parents find out that she had got an illegal abortion and didn't feel like she could go to them for help. No matter what the reason is that she couldn't tell her parents, the fact is that some teens may find themselves in a worse situation than before. Also parents not knowing the kind of medical treatment theat their child is getting may result in a situation that is too late to fix.